Medicine: Paralysis Serum for All

Two Manhattan scientists
announced last week that they had developed a horse serum useful
against infantile paralysis. Heretofore the best treatment for the
disease has been "convalescent serum" taken from a person who has
recently recovered from infantile paralysis. Convalescent serum has
been scarce and difficult to get. Drs. Marcus Neustaedter,
neurologist, and E. J. Banzhaff, serologist, have hit upon a procedure
of producing the proper serum in a horse, the handy and prolific source
of diphtheria antitoxin. This serum immunizes monkeys against the
disease. It has even cured them when...